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Cloudflare now lets any site allow search crawlers while blocking AI agents and training bots separately News

Cloudflare has made three independently configurable AI crawler categories - Search, Agent and Training - available to every customer, and from September 15 new domains will block Agent and Training traffic on ad-bearing pages by default.

Cloudflare AI crawler controls Tool

Free-tier controls that split AI crawler traffic into Search, Agent and Training, each set independently to allow, block site-wide, or block only on ad-bearing pages. These are edge blocks on classified traffic, not robots.txt requests. New domains change default on September 15, 2026.

Cloudflare AI Bot Controls Tool

A free Cloudflare setting, live since July 1 2026, that lets any site separately allow or block three kinds of AI crawler: search indexers, live AI assistants, and model-training scrapers.